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Jĝrgen Münster
3-Jun-2005, 02:46 AM
I have some reports that must be printed on some special pre-printed
forms.

Until now, I assumed that if I put at field 1.00 inch from the top when
designing it in Crystal, it would print exactly there on any printer (it
does on my printer) - except for some minor deviation.

It turns out that even though my customers claim they have the correct
printer drivers all printers are different and I experience deviations up
to
0.2 inches (5 mm). This is so much that the fields will not hit the right
places on the pre-printed forms.

Therefore, I might have to take up to old DOS technique, where the users
enter the requested top margin and left margin for a specific report.

What is your experience with making precision reports? How do I control
the
top margin and left margin from VDF to Crystal?

Regards
Jĝrgen Münster
Dialog Consult
Denmark

Ido Millet
3-Jun-2005, 12:04 PM
See:
http://support.businessobjects.com/communityCS/TechnicalPapers/scrprinterdependency.pdf.asp

Cheers,
- Ido
www.MilletSoftware.com

"Jĝrgen Münster" <jfm@it.dk> wrote in message
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> I have some reports that must be printed on some special pre-printed
> forms.
>
> Until now, I assumed that if I put at field 1.00 inch from the top when
> designing it in Crystal, it would print exactly there on any printer (it
> does on my printer) - except for some minor deviation.
>
> It turns out that even though my customers claim they have the correct
> printer drivers all printers are different and I experience deviations up
> to
> 0.2 inches (5 mm). This is so much that the fields will not hit the right
> places on the pre-printed forms.
>
> Therefore, I might have to take up to old DOS technique, where the users
> enter the requested top margin and left margin for a specific report.
>
> What is your experience with making precision reports? How do I control
> the
> top margin and left margin from VDF to Crystal?
>
> Regards
> Jĝrgen Münster
> Dialog Consult
> Denmark
>
>
>